On Fri, 29 May 2009, Ron Youvan wrote:
>> If I have a bunch of assorted files, how can I find out their total size?
>> Quickly is a definite plus, since this will happen hundreds of times.
>
> If they are in a series of directories that do not contain directories you
> can list the sum of all file sizes in each directory using the "show
> directory sIzes" command under the "command" menu in mc. (midnight
> commander)
They'll be a bunch of files, /foo/a, /bar/b, /baz/c, etc. I don't want
the total size of /foo, /bar, and /baz if that's what you mean. Also, how
do I make it scripted? I need to do it hundreds of times.
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